Many times we forget to add attachments, notice a spelling mistake or forgot to add something in the email. New in Google Labs is an add-on to your account that can undo the email you just sent, with a limit of five seconds, allowing you to go back and re-edit the email you previously just sent.Once the add-on is enabled under your Gmail settings, Labs and Undo Send, users will be promoted with an "Undo" button after sending an email, giving them just enough time to prevent regrettable emails. If users opt to undo the email they had just sent, they will be taken back to the email where edits can be made.
The tool works by adding a five second delay into the sending email process, giving the user time to prevent the email from going out. The email will automatically be stored as a draft if the user opts to undo the sending process, giving them a chance to alter their email. If the user closes the browser after the email was initially sent, during the five second delay, the email will still be sent to the recipient.
If I'm not mistaken, recall can be done at any time (not just within 5 seconds) and when done on emails completely internal to the exchange group will actually pull the email out of the inboxes.
This is definitely a similar idea, but quite the different implementation.
AOL Mail has had this feature for years, actually since I can remember, the only thing is that it was limited to AOL users themselves, and it was not 5 seconds, the UNDO was available so far as the other end did not open the email message yet, this was available with the AOL client not sure if it has been available on their web mail service though.
That's just like Exchange. The reason this feature is available is because AOL controls all of their users' email through their system, just as in an organization, the Exchange server controls all of the users' email. There is no way yet to recall email between different mail systems because the framework is designed differently and a server from one company isn't authorized to have that kind of control over a server from a different company. That is something you would never want to publish openly; it's just asking for all kinds of exploits.
Oh I know, like I said it was limited to AOL users, of course the only reason they were able to do this is because they controlled when and where the email was received, I meant to say that for the end user it looks more or less the same feature, except for the time limitation of 5 seconds, I never said it was the same technology or technique
Extremely useful.
5 secs or less would be near impossible to read and correct, most ppl remember after about a minute.
... Yea, not very useful LOL
To me this is very usefull
But some people use email like a chat room. Especially on gmail with its convo view. Of course, they could opt out.
New button : Opt me out of "Undo" for this session.
Extremely useful.
a flexible timer that you can set on your account would be more useful. I usually realize i forgot to attach something about 20 seconds later, when i go check the sent message and...whoops!
To: wife@hotmail.com
Hey baby, the wife's out. Come over.
*click send*
"oh ****!"
Yes, very useful.
Your welcome Rappy!
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What's you're problem? :p (I know, I know)
There problem is that giga always corrects you're spelling!
Seriously though, sounds like a good addition
But when your angry, you WANT that person to know your mad.. Email isn't usually the way to do it
Ha man, twice in one set of comments you've been picked up for this :p
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As in timed. I currently have a purpose for timed emails too. Does anyone know of an add-in for Thunderbird for example?
I'm Ron Burgundy?
Whoever thought 5 seconds was enough time for this should be fired.
yeah..I'm grasping at straws.
It gives you enough time to go "oops i forgot blah blah blah" and hit undo.
I don't think it's to stop people posting rude emails etc
This feature isn't meant to save you from emailing your boss that death threat. It seems to be designed for those "Oh ****, I forgot to actually attach that client proposal!" moments, and 5 seconds is a fine compromise.
Hahahaha
You have as much time as you need before you press the Send button.
Are you mad? I could die of old age!
You can enable it together with some other new stuff on the Labs tab in your settings!
No need for ths junk. Just resend the stupid mail.
Seriously guys, stop being lazy. If you're that worried about mistakes in your email, re-read it before you click send!
Seriously guys, stop being lazy. If you're that worried about mistakes in your email, re-read it before you click send!
+1. This is hardly a feature that is headline worthy. Although the fact that Google is calling it a feature might make it headline worthy lol.
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